Be loyal to yourself, charitable to neighbours, nothing more.
Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.
A powerful portfolio of physiological and behavioural evidence now exists to support the case that fish feel pain and that this feeling matters. In the face of such evidence, any argument to the contrary based on the claim that fish 'do not have the right sort of brain' can no longer be called scientific. It is just obstinate.
Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.
The member of Congress who forgets his constituents' needs usually serves only one term.
I don't like finished things, because finished is over, dead.
I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance it provoked in me, and an upheaval out of all proportion to this insignificant event thrust me into miracle, into the rapture of the definitive, as if there were no more questions-only answers. I was drunk on a thousand unexpected discoveries, none of which I could make use of. . . . This is how I nearly reached the Supreme. But instead I went on with my walk.
I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990].